MEXICO CITY — U.S. military forces will not strike Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum vowed Friday in response to reports that President Donald Trump has secretly directed the Pentagon to take action against Latin American drug cartels.

"There will be no invasion: That is rejected, absolutely rejected," an emphatic Sheinbaum told reporters at her regular morning news conference. "The United States is not going to come to Mexico with troops."

The media accounts, originating in The New York Times, revived nationalist fears in a nation that has endured U.S. invasions and land grabs over the years — though none in more than a century.

Sheinbaum said Mexico had been informed that Trump was issuing such an order, but "it has nothing to do with Mexican territory."

The Mexican leader repeated

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